MooPig Paint

Painting a Day :: "Light house :: Work in Progress"

2011-12-17T14:46:00.000-08:00

20 x 16 oil on canvas, Lighthouse, work in progress, style-lized, [looks better in person], photo by camera phone.

Painting a Day :: "Deconstruction"

2011-12-10T05:44:00.000-08:00

20 x 16 oil on canvas, Deconstructing the Executives, [looks better in person], photo by camera phone.

Painting a Day -- LandScape

2011-10-27T08:27:00.000-07:00

8 x 10, Oil on Canvas, Bucolic Scapes, Dwellings

Painting a Day -- LandScape

2011-10-25T08:22:00.000-07:00

8 x 10, Oil on Canvas, Bucolic Scapes,

Painting a Day --Still Life

2011-10-23T07:11:00.000-07:00

8 x 10, oil on canvas, Still Life, grapefruit

Painting a Day --Still Life

2011-10-22T07:05:00.000-07:00

8 x 10, Oil on Canvas, Asparagus, Still life

Painting a Day --Still Life

2011-10-21T07:02:00.000-07:00

8 x 10, Oil on Canvas, tomato

Desiree's Hibiscus

2011-10-18T10:35:00.000-07:00

8 x 10, Acrylic on Canvas, Desiree's Hibiscus, Using only red, yellow, blue, black, and white

Desiree's Opportunity

2011-10-18T10:08:00.000-07:00

9 x 12, Acrylic on Canvas Paper, Painting a day by Desiree, scanned

Dez Doodles

2011-09-18T04:09:00.000-07:00

Scanner couldn't handle the whole piece, so it is in two parts here.

Sharpie on Poster Board, 12 x 18, says it's "unfinished" ...

Finishing Touches

2011-08-23T15:03:00.000-07:00

20 x 24, Oil on Canvas, photo of painting by camera phone, title: Beach, ...looks better in person...

Face :: Stage One -- PART TWO -- "Skull" from Brain Slices

2011-08-14T09:15:00.000-07:00

Skull-A-Day Makes A Skull Image Using Brain Slices at Mutter Museum
BY SCOTT BEALE ON AUGUST 28, 2010

"... Noah Scalin of Skull-A-Day made a giant skull image using brain slices at the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia. ..."
____________Reference
http://laughingsquid.com/skull-a-day-makes-a-skull-image-using-brain-slices-at-mutter-museum/

Face :: Stage TWO -- "Musculature"

2011-08-12T10:01:00.000-07:00

Acrylic on 9x12 Cotton Canvas, Students' Work, Face, Stage two, the Facial Muscles

Rosetta Stone: That Guy Ruined My Life | Rosetta Stone

2011-08-07T12:00:00.000-07:00

Rosetta Stone: That Guy Ruined My Life | Rosetta Stone: "Rosetta Stone: That Guy Ruined My Life
What price are you prepared to pay for your art?"

Face :: Stage One -- "Skull"

2011-07-30T08:55:00.000-07:00

[Kayla's Work]

[Example]

[Zoe's Work]

[Dez's Work]

Acrylic on 9x12 Cotton Canvas, Students' Work, Face, Stage one, the Skull

Dez's Sphere

2011-07-14T10:30:00.000-07:00

Acrylic on paper, scan sized, abstract

Painting a Day -- Apprentices' Work

2011-07-13T08:29:00.000-07:00

Acrylics on Canvas, 8x10, 9x12, 12x16

Bobby, London

2011-03-04T09:00:00.000-08:00

Mottled Shade of the Back Forty

2011-03-04T05:43:00.000-08:00

30" x 36" Opaques and Hues Abstraction, Chortling Rooster

Back Forty is a series of paintings

Clear Lake City, TX

2011-03-03T20:44:00.000-08:00

Flounder Fillet in the Fossil Record

2011-03-03T03:52:00.000-08:00

Old Harbor House, Nantucket

2011-03-02T20:39:00.000-08:00

Back Forty Series, Serenity

2011-03-02T12:24:00.000-08:00

Scene is from Sturbridge Village, Mass., photo from around 1986, but I painted it in 2004.

I wonder if this is still there, since I haven't been back in twenty years.. funny how quick life goes by.

Cleaning my Brushes: Padreno after the Gale

2011-03-02T04:19:00.000-08:00

by Pat Darnell

Introduction to My New Idea for
Couch d' Art

This little oil painting keeps popping up in my blogs. And here it is again; that is because I think everyone desires a wall hanging. Let me explain.

It was done hastily on a canvas board after I finished another larger painting -- it was a stab at finding a use for left over paint on my palette. Many times my smeared up palettes look much more interesting than the finished painting.

It turns out framed artwork is illustratively final, and can be off color once you get it home and try it on your walls. Also, oil on canvas board is a no-no because slow evaporating oil needs both sides of the surface to be open to air. The smeared look of the finished painting is always disappointing with oil on canvas board. The best ground is primed linen. But more on that later.

This is so true especially if the artist is red\blue deficient. Many of us males are , by the way r\b or red\green "deficient;" [don't believe me; go get your eyes tested for it]. Many Impressionists had cataracts and other vision problems.

My glasses were so imposing most coworkers called me Poindexter... or Four-eyes. I went through the contact lenses stages, to get away from the bookworm image... only to become intolerant in an allergenic way. It was during the years when smoking was not banned in the workplace.. so probably second-hand smoke was rasping my lens covered eyes as a non-smoker.

Yes, people used to sit at their drafting tables smoking and drawing eight hours a day, indoors. Ouch -- that brings back raw memories, of sweat box drafting rooms and printing shops...

Today we have Lazik technology that will cure any person with acute sight problems. And I am also a Lazik patient. My parents, both in their eighties, have had double cataract lens replacement surgeries.

Guaranteed I have had plenty of experience with vision, persistence of vision, color theory first hand, and am very sympathetic with anyone who has vision development problems.

Now that all said, here is a plan. I will put color families up on this site with some degree of accuracy. If you want a painting done, you tell me which family of colors your abode is ranged, and WAA-LAA!

Look for it in MooPig Paint future sidebars, as I scan\cut\paste and make it happen... it is really based on two larger families of Pastel and Primary... you will get it, and maybe become more secure in picking wall hangings for you lovely homes.
- Pat Darnell and Friends

Chicago Forest Preserve, off River Road

2011-03-02T03:43:00.000-08:00

by Pat Darnell

Remember just a few months ago? Well it will be back soon.

I lived in Chicago area for many years, long enough to get a real feel for beauty, and ugliness, of snow fall and Spring melt season.

Sometimes on the actual day of Easter, it would snow all night with big flaky flakes, and create the most beautiful scenery.

Des Plaines River, Oil on antique linen, damaged antique frame from a garage sale,

Today is my brother Dave's Birthday. Happy Birthday Dave.

Ambidextrous Design by P2

2011-03-01T20:47:00.000-08:00

Action of Static Subjects; Fossils

2011-03-01T14:56:00.000-08:00

First Light

2011-03-01T08:43:00.001-08:00

Forgotten Madonna and Child

2011-03-01T08:42:00.001-08:00

Series: Back Forty

2011-03-01T08:41:00.000-08:00

Red Headed Girl with Umbrella

2011-03-01T08:36:00.000-08:00

Back to "Painting a Day"

2011-03-01T05:02:00.000-08:00

Quiet Night, Jammed Harbor

2011-02-28T20:57:00.000-08:00

Pier Beauty

2011-02-28T15:15:00.000-08:00

Rain or Shine

2011-02-28T14:27:00.000-08:00

The Apprentice, WIP, Work In Progress

2011-02-28T11:52:00.000-08:00

Cleaning my Brushes: Old Water Tower

2011-02-27T11:39:00.000-08:00

Oil on Canvas Board is not recommended. I agree. But sometimes it is the only thing laying around. You can try to make it work... but it does not dry properly. Second fault on this one -- In frame: with glass over it... not recommended.

True color out from under glass...

Oh well, deep subject....

Painting a Day -- Ezekiel

2011-02-25T15:21:00.000-08:00

Bahama Conch Shells

2011-02-25T04:54:00.000-08:00

Study in Primitive Style, Dad in the Bahamas
"Hey Garnet Gurl, is this Cobalt enough? or do you like it more Balt than Co?"
Oil on Canvas Cotton, 36" X 36"

Dad paused to listen to the ocean, in a conch shell.

Painting a Day: Ten Paintings Behind

2011-02-24T16:38:00.000-08:00

Desiree and Pony

2011-02-24T11:43:00.000-08:00

Booth Bay Harbor Detail

2011-02-22T14:22:00.000-08:00

Blessing of the Shrimp Fleet, Kema, TX

2011-02-18T11:48:00.000-08:00

Meet Mr Orchid and Miss Christmas Cactus

2010-12-14T07:28:00.000-08:00

Click on PHOTO to view a larger frame...

Experiment One :: Stage One

2010-11-15T12:56:00.000-08:00

English Country Church, Oil on Canvas, Oval 20 x 12 , Stage One

This is a canvas stretched in a hoop... for grins. I know this pic is primitive, freehand, Luke.

COLORS

2010-09-21T09:39:00.000-07:00

9 x 12, oil on canvas, color combinations, that's all

First Draft -- Horse

2010-09-19T19:21:00.000-07:00

Oil on Canvas, 22 x 28, Horse in Field, first day

Lone Fisherman in Canoe

2010-08-31T04:23:00.000-07:00

Oil on Canvas, 20 x 16, Lone Fisherman in Canoe, ... started out as a monotone, added a lot of gold that is not showing up in photo's ... oval transparent glaze color complementary of mountains' colors added ... that should do it. Do what? I dunno, just "it."

Touch up is the name of the game now. I think I am getting into a systematic banging out paintings. We shall see: but I doubt it... Painting a day? ... and I am 256 behind.

After the Hurricane -- Gulf of Mexico

2010-08-30T16:43:00.000-07:00

First Day Layout, oil on linen, 18 x 18, After the Hurricane -- Gulf of Mexico

UPDATE :: Painting a Day :: "Wranglers on the Purple Sage"

2010-08-30T01:28:00.000-07:00

UPDATE 08.30.2010 :: Better snap shot of the piece, 20 x 24, oil on linen, Wranglers of the Purple Sage
*****
Camera phone photo balances the colors strange ... this has more mood indigo than it shows here.

Oil on linen, More Wranglers, this time out early on the sage, roping a pony for the day's work.

Canadas on the Colorado

2010-08-27T01:29:00.000-07:00

This Just In from the Field
by South Texas Correspondent Dave Darnell

Canadas on the Colorado. "They were in a gaggle across river and swam across to let me snap them. Looks like a goose, gander and fledgling."

Whales at War :: The Continuing Saga

2010-08-17T02:39:00.000-07:00

Shown previously, added some glazes... 16 x 20, oil on canvas. Approaching final phase.

How Weird Is This ?

2010-07-31T14:00:00.000-07:00

As we observe M.P. Paint go thru many thought processes as he shares the fine art of oil painting with his legion fans these images came across my screen from various e-mails from my friend and companion Dora Clark. The similarity with subjects from M. P. Paints' work struck me and I felt it important to share them with you.

Artists + Digital Technology = Bold New Ways of Engaging Viewers

2010-07-28T19:39:00.000-07:00

"In the future, the art world will be even more liberated to make use of all the media around us-because artisis have this passionate curiosity and ceaseless desire for new ideas.

By 2050, you're going to see a new leadership equation emerge based on what happens in the art world. Traditionally, decisions have been made by political and corporate leadership. In the future, creative individuals-artists, architects and designers-are going to be making major decisions having to do with how we shape our society, and especially in the world's urban environments, since by 2050 the majority of people will be living in cities.

Ultimately, entirely new types of artists will also emerge from all of this. Artists are, at heart, opportunity-seekers who transform the world around us. they give me tremendous optimism. I believe the future is unknowable, but it is not unthinkable."

Excerpt from "Smithsonian 40th Anniversary" issue-40 things we need to know about the next 40 years. I would recommend this read for anyone who still does.

Corporate WONK is Born

2010-07-28T17:26:00.000-07:00

Recent Gallery

2010-07-27T04:26:00.000-07:00

Work in Progress -- The Forgotten Madonna and Child

2010-07-26T05:38:00.000-07:00

Developing Folie a' deux .......

WORK in Progress -- Day THREE

Photography with Phone Camera not so good -- but, 18 x 24, Oil on Canvas, applying glazes, and trying to bring out some details from the abstract composition.

Days One and Two for Madonna and Child ...

Back to "Painting a Day" :: That's about it!

2010-07-25T13:42:00.000-07:00

Oil on Canvas, 16 x 20, What is it! Budget Bargain Waterfall... this is about all "I" can do in only a day. And this actually took a couple of days, allowing for drying. Woe is me.

Delayed Gratification

2010-07-24T10:22:00.000-07:00

It Never Ends like it Starts ...
by Pat Darnell

Bryan\College Station, TX | As I conduct myself into a 72 month project to get my last two bairn through college... I propelled myself into a frenzy of contemptible war with my brushes.

I attempted to "get closer" to my paintings, only to find myself rebelling needlessly against my brushes. I wish someone would volunteer to pistol whip me when I start refusing to clean my brushes.

This is not a good thing. Oil painting is about delaying the result. Remember in ceramics classes where you learned to paint or glaze with a substance with anticipation of it coming out a different color after firing? Oil painting is similar basis for delayed gratification involving also slight color modification over time.

As the oils, thinners, and vehicles evaporate from the surface of the painting, they leave behind the pigments, right? So what you painted three weeks ago is not what necessarily you have now in front of you. As for Acrylics, *yuk*, you see what it is as soon as the water evaporates.

This is why I call oils more forgiving -- as allowing me mitigation up front for future mess ups, because of my lack of talent in certain areas. The desired result is to have the subject of the painting "jump out" at you for the life of the piece.

Older paintings start to dim, as the painting becomes drier and drier... so to speak. But with modern substances, and our liberation from having to crush deadly pigments and add linseed oil, we can proceed as we please. Just pop down to Hobby Lobby, or Dick Blick on line, and "buy" all the sale stuff. My rule of thumb in using modern oil painting paraphernalia is three days drying between major glazes and such. Detailing can be done anytime you can reach without smudging is my lot.

Note: My palette changes every time I happen onto a hand basket of leaking, expiring, or discontinued tubes of paint.

And that is how I attacked my 72 month goal.

Ideally I could put a year's worth of "Tuition" down for each kid with a hundred paintings if each one pulls $100 per painting. That could offset $10,000 per year tuitions. Eh? That is ideally.

That means the formula depends on 100 paintings a year. Here is the trick: "a painting a day" in oils is "ambitious." And a "commercial value" for a painting a day -- well, is it worth a $Bill to someone?

Probably not. I have estimated that about "three" in thirteen paintings have that kind of commercial value. However, I also estimate that about "one" in thirteen usually "jumps off the canvas" and has a greater value. Eight remaining oils hover in there at "mas y minos" values -- depending on your sales force.

Luckily, I personally have a sales force in my Wife's abilities: She can [and does] sell shampoo to a bald man. And our daughter has been her apprentice for sixteen years. So as a trio we could invent a market that would average the needed tuition offsetting sums. NO?

Pat Pend OUT. Good Luck Wid' It.

Whales at War :: The Continuing Saga

2010-07-23T05:23:00.000-07:00

Oil on Canvas, 16 x 20, Painting a Day, Whales at War

Work in Progress -- Back Forty #5

2010-07-21T17:14:00.000-07:00

First Day Layout, 21 x 27, Oil on Canvas

First "days" layout and color trial and errrors, and this is a good start for Back Forty scene. This is the fifth in a series.

I keep doing back forty scenes I suppose to keep hope alive that everyone will have opportunity to enjoy the great outdoors. I see myself always passing time in a cabin in the woods of a bucolic surround.

Long story: will spare the details from here.

I am trying some new stuff this time, and revising the palette to include more red tones next to the green hues. Eh, you like so far?

UPDATE :: Work in Progress -- Wrangler

2010-07-16T03:00:00.000-07:00

Day THREE -- Almost there ...

WORK in Progress -- Day TWO

Day TWO -- Working Dark tones and making big Mess ... but is needed to make contrast for horse later! Photography with Phone Camera not so good.

First Day Lay Out, oil on canvas, 16 x 20 inch,

Three Little Fishies -- Original Author Unknown

2010-07-04T11:12:00.000-07:00

Down in the meadow in a little bitty pool
Swan two little fishies and a mama fishie too.
"Swim," said the mama fishie, "Swim if you can."
And they swam and they swam all over the dam.

(chorus)
Boop Boop Dittem Dattem What-tem Chu!
Boop Boop Dittem Dattem What-tem Chu!
Boop Boop Dittem Dattem What-tem Chu!
And they swam and they swam all over the dam.

"Stop," said the mama fishie, "Or you will get lost."
The 3 little fishies didn't want to be bossed.
The 3 little fishies went off on a spree.
They sway and they swam right out to the sea.

chorus

"Whee!" yelled the little fishies, "Here's a lot of fun,
We'll swim in the sea till the day is done."
They swam and they swam, it was a lark,
Till all of a sudden they saw a shark!

chorus

"Help!" cried the little fishies, "Gee, look at all the whales!"
And quick as they could, they turned on their tails.
And back to the pool in the meadow they swam,
And they swam and they swam back over the dam. [SOURCE]

Painting a Day -- LandScape

2010-06-27T15:30:00.000-07:00

Phone Sketchpad Art :: Beginner

2010-04-23T09:40:00.000-07:00

by Pat and Desiree

Sketches on a Cell Phone -- GEEEEEZ!

2010-04-16T21:39:00.000-07:00

by Pat Darnell

Yes, this is the limit of functionality of my new Flight by SAMSUNG, ATandT, with built-in Sketchpad Application in Tools. I sketch on the touch screen, and save, then send image via Message to my E-mail... then post here.

What a trip... loads of fun. Primordial results. I feel strange all over ...

Back to "Painting a Day"

2010-04-16T05:58:00.000-07:00

MooPig TV series Reviews :: FarScape

2010-04-15T08:30:00.000-07:00

In a different space was this great Science Fiction series on television. It had movie quality every episode. It used puppeteering as a image bearer, to make the sense of evolving beings in the Universe seem too real. Thanks, FarScape, it was a wonderful time, with superb imagery.

"Celebrating it’s 10th anniversary, you can find yourself the proud owner of a boxed DVD set of all four seasons. I did not mistype. All four seasons of Claudia Black… I mean of Farscape." says Screen Rant in July 2009.

Back to "Painting a Day"

2010-04-15T05:00:00.000-07:00

Back to "Painting a Day"

2010-04-14T05:56:00.000-07:00

Back to "Painting a Day"

2010-04-12T23:54:00.000-07:00

2010-01-06T19:14:00.001-08:00

World's Greatest Next Door Neighbor's Puppy -- Mia Dog -- in Tree

2009-12-10T10:07:00.000-08:00

You May be an Artist

2009-09-12T22:40:00.000-07:00

by Pat Darnell

There is a test
that helps determine
one's propensity
to seek art

and do art
and seek hidden facets
and find great hiding places

this is the test:
first you notice
that you feel an emptiness
in your heart
while growing up, and,

you have pains in your wrists
you count things all the time
you find patterns in the strangest places
you understand comic books
you memorize all the wrong things for school
you ask questions no one else cares about

you know how to mix all the colors

using only primaries red, yellow and blue
you then graduate,

adding white and black to your palette

you think the greatest silent movie made is Eraserhead
you spend much of your youth crawling around on floors
you secretly explore vacant buildings

such as churches on Mondays
roam behind buildings, and up ramps,
stumble through junkyards,
and walk dry ditches before rain

you get nervous, irritable in bookstores

you hide under things,
you seek cover in bushes, under bridges
you think long after you had a conversation
what you said, what he said
what she said, you repeat yourself,

saying everything twice, saying everything twice
you blush when others notice you

you flush when made fun of

you like to go up in attics

you lay down on the sidewalk and watch ants
you use a Ball jar to catch bees
... and poke holes in the top
so the bees might breathe

you cut country bouquets for your mom

you cannot get enough of cedar tree's scents

you love how coconuts feel

you love wool and felt and Egyptian cotton

you have ability to feel oils of different weights

you find treasure leaps into your sensitive fingers

you have lovers before you have lovers

your eyes are always changing colors

you are scatter brained to some

you, to others their cornerstone

you love the odors of outdoor zoo's

... and barnyards

... and plastics

... and trains, and warm wood

... and rusty metal, and things fried

your taste buds must be firstly satisfied
you listen carefully to others' claims
you trust others for what they say
you love your feet bare on pavement after it rains
you stand close to the stream when it overflows

you watch and stalk animals, birds and crocs
you do not want to disturb them
... but they are too clever for that
you admire animals as they scamper

you love to hold a torch at night
Now if you say yes to twenty or so of thirty-six
questions that pertain to your artistic
evaluation -- though you may not know
how it really is you are this...

be accepting of your story
count your blessings so
in self evaluations
you do not waste time any more

Once you are sure
the hard part is past
it is hardest to deny
for your nature is pure
and your method is shaping
you passed the tests

up from deep well-spring sources
flowing as foundling art in you
and you may spend hours and days,
confidently, even months and centuries
with the new, unspoiled thought

leveling your groundwork
surveying the possibilities
developing your technique
simpering about odds and ends

so that eventually you conquer means

to find materials to embody
to find tillable pasture
and favorable schemes
for your artistic manufacture
so when it is done
when it is finished

when it reaches its best end
you will feel empty again
only this time both
in your heart and in your gut
as if you drank liquid mercury

and the pain will last a night
or a fortnight, until you find comfort
and gaze upon your artwork
on a different day in new light

Totes

2009-06-26T10:58:00.000-07:00

Acrylic on antique canvas, Tropics Photo, jungle island harbor.

Cargo Cult, or just provisions...?

Guess Who dropped in for Dinner...

2009-06-23T14:59:00.000-07:00

Subjects don't just Grow on Trees, You Know
by Pat Darnell

Some grow on vines. Tomatoes from the garden. Scanned and fixed in Picasa 3.

A funny thing happened while Whale Watching

2009-06-20T08:41:00.000-07:00

This large canvas has a history. It is a failure of mine I painted in 1976. You may have seen it around. It is the tail of a whale cruising through the blood of his buddies. It is me trying to master "foreshortening" a method of posing a subject in augmented proportions... well, you get the picture.

As it became recycled it started to get a reputation, and you could not believe how many interpretations I have gotten: "It's a Goose" or It's a Fly" and "That doesn't look like underwater!!!"

"Hey, how do we know how a whale sees his underwater world?" I reply.. "maybe it is full of light for him... "

Huhnjh? Anyway, I am behind on photographing my works... so here once again is Whales at War.... 48" x 37" oil on canvas, 1976, failed attempt at foreshortening. by Pat Darnell

Today is my Birthday

2009-06-04T00:51:00.000-07:00

by Pat Darnell

When I was just about on my last breath, and I had my last nerve rubbed the wrong way by "Northerners"... after eight years of running in place in sand;

I picked up a paint brush and an old canvas board I had lying around for ten years, and painted this scene.

Sorry to be your buzz kill on my special day, but that is the way I look at birthdays. Usually the day is fraught with too numerous memories.

This little "chicken scratch" painting has a great deal of symbolism... that probably I am the only soul who will ever really see the symbols...

I do have a birthday wish for all who are in the range of my voice: "Get enough sleep, and be happier."

Repeating Themes

2009-05-28T12:32:00.000-07:00

by Pat Darnell

After many years I have become clinically aware that I repeat ocean going vessels scenes many times.

At one time I was doing a batik technique, that here in this study turned out sort of like a scratch board.

This is a study in how to put ink over water color, or gauche, and then rub it back. I really like doing this, and will make a mental note to get back to it.

It is done on paper, maybe butcher paper, and dry mounted to foam board.

Do you know what is totally crazy about these old sketches and things? When I did them I thought that they would eventually go away... disintegrate. Then they appear again, in a stack of stuff that someone has kept, forgotten and rediscovered... thus is the stuff of our art -- the state of our art.

I used to draft plans for prospective projects, mostly housing and stores. I easily did 200 or more a year on average. Every one of those "interpretations" has my initials or name on it. Now that is scary.

I am alive in the Universe

2009-05-22T07:33:00.000-07:00

I am a planet
...
life happens very fast
life multiples
making a soup of
a Planet like me
...
I am alive in the universe...

Making a Soup of a Planet such as Me; I am alive in the Universe

2009-05-22T07:00:00.000-07:00

I am a planet
One of texias kichas zillions smillions planets
in a solar system
in a galaxy
in a universe
in a super universe
...
life multiples
making a soup of
a Planet like me

I am alive in the universe...

Life multiplies; Making a Soup of a Planet such as Me

2009-05-22T06:52:00.000-07:00

I am a planet
One of texias kichas zillions smillions planets
...
Life lies asleep
Slepus Nimbus billion zillion years
then when conditions are just right
life happens very fast
life multiples
making a soup of
a Planet like me

Life Happens Very Fast

2009-05-22T06:47:00.000-07:00

...
then when conditions are just right
life happens very fast
life multiples
making a soup of
a Planet like me

I am alive in the universe...

Life happens very fast; Life Multiplies

2009-05-22T06:36:00.000-07:00

I am a planet
One of texias kichas zillions smillions planets
in a solar system
in a galaxy
in a universe
in a super universe
I have height and depth
I have width and breadth

And space... lots of space
Life lies asleep
Slepus Nimbus billion zillion years
then when conditions are just right
life happens very fast
life multiples
making a soup of
a Planet like me

I am alive in the universe...

Life Multiplies

2009-05-22T06:30:00.000-07:00

I am a planet
...

Slepus Nimbus billion zillion years
then when conditions are just right
life happens very fast

Ship to Shore

2009-05-21T03:05:00.000-07:00

Acrylic on stretched Cotton Canvas, 2009, by Pat Darnell, 9 x 12

I like to draw and paint ship scenes. I cannot escape the fact.

Word of the Day in Urban Dictionary: Execubabble

2009-05-20T05:44:00.000-07:00

May 20: Execubabble

Verbal executive communication in broad, vague terms that rise above normal speak. Characterized by an excessive use of executive words such as robust, paradigm, and drill down. Those on the receiving end of execubabble are no better informed after the speech than when it began.

Execubabble
Question: "How is the company doing?
Answer: "We are entering a quarter in which we expect robust growth. Paradigms are shifting, but the team has drilled down to the heart of the challenge."

Are We Starving Yet ??

2009-05-16T11:20:00.000-07:00

I recently made acquaintance with a portrait painter's husband. She has paintings on display at his office, and at the Brazos Center. I found out she is member of a group that meets in downtown Bryan for figure studies. I am excited to find out more of the group, and start my portrait painting career.... eh? I'll keep us posted.

This might just be the crux of the biscuit for me. It may help with my confidence factor about portraits... a constant that has been low for a long time.

I think my problem is in trying too hard to put too much into portraits. We shall see.

Roy R Luepnitz, Ph D @ Yahoo! Video

Thursday's QUIZ -- W.I.P., Work in Progress

2009-05-15T12:16:00.000-07:00

Ponder the pictures:

Then "Guess" which one is the Work In Progress... ?

Even as I sleep though...

2009-05-07T04:06:00.000-07:00

Mist moves about my surface,
meteors hit me and
asteroids explode just above
my ground...

As a Planet...

2009-05-06T03:51:00.000-07:00

I lie asleep Billions smillions sleepus nimbus years...

And Space; Lot's of S-P-A-C-E

2009-05-05T04:53:00.000-07:00

As a Planet...

2009-05-05T03:57:00.000-07:00

I have Height and Depth;

Width and Breadth....

I am a Planet --

2009-05-04T15:36:00.000-07:00

In a Super Universe...

In a Solar System: in a Galaxy: in a Universe...

2009-05-01T03:41:00.000-07:00

I am a Planet, Illustrations...

One of zillions smillions planets

2009-04-30T10:20:00.000-07:00

gauche on canvas 9 x 12, I am a Planet, illustrations

I am a Planet, by Samantha and Pat Darnell

2009-04-29T10:15:00.000-07:00

gauche on 9 x 12 canvas, originals scanned

Studio: Artist's Winsome Dreaming

2009-04-21T13:21:00.000-07:00

Wickedly Sublime
by Pat Darnell

Response to: Carol Marine's Painting a Day: Yellow Splash

"...Someone else asked when my studio will be done. I honestly don't know, but we hope..."

In response to studios: I often tell myself that when I finally have my "dream" studio, I will be sleight of vision and hand, and possibly have only weeks left to live.

After a lifetime of crawling on floors, hiding in attics, freezing in garages, stumbling around in backrooms, fighting dust balls, tumble weeds, bad light, and birds, insects, mice and snakes...

...I have to tell others that a studio is a dream notion I may never realize in my lifetime, and as it is to most of us... it is always in "the works."

The last real studio I ever worked in was at Trinity U, in the early 70's... Yikes!

Life has taken many turns and a studio has never been a "family priority.." for my bunch. Why do I say this? Almost every artist I have pleasure to talk with says "my studio is almost finished..."

Thanks for sharing that studio note there, CM. I sense, and appreciate, the irony of the statement.

Nihilism is a poison

2009-04-20T20:21:00.000-07:00

Retrieved by PD
(event) by stripe Wed Mar 25 2009

Throw it. Watch it spin in a perfect arc until it smashes against the wall. Watch the water fan out in a crystal spray. Watch the drops fall and shatter into tiny spheres. The broken glass mingling with the wetness will reflect light in a beautiful pattern. It will sparkle like you've never seen - rather, like you've seen but never felt. So easy. So perfect. Create the breathtaking sequence of seconds that will - for a flash of delight - redefine your aesthetic. Just throw it.

...But the moment's passed. You hesitated, and lost the will. Or did you stop yourself? You aren't ready to give in to destruction. The chaotic impulse has, once again, been overridden. In your mind, the cup breaks, the water sprays, the light shines, over and over, a false memory of wishful thinking. Your desire will be stuck on repeat until you cave... but the moment's passed.

Is this the ninth time? Tenth time? Have you been counting? Next time it won't just be a glass of water. All those glasses of water add up to a project, or a relationship, or your car plus another. Oh, sure - take martial arts, paint like Pollock, go to one of those junkyard therapy places that let you smash old TVs with a sledgehammer. Compromise. Accept substitues. Imitate the real thing so many times that the shadow takes on substance. Hope that the substance weighs so heavy on your heart that those dark leaping urges are stilled.

It won't work. Just throw it.

1969 Red, Yellow, Blue and White

2009-04-05T20:53:00.000-07:00

Never said I was a prodigy...